I seem to remember COMPLETE from Software AG wanted to do this back in the 80s. At that time, we had some local use that caused difficulties :) I was still writing applications at the time, so I can't provide any more details.
Now, we don't and neither do they (At least I don't believe they do, we haven't run COMPLETE for a decade or so) . I don't think I would let anything use it in this day and age. Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Richard L Peurifoy > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 2:06 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Batch program to update CVTUSER > > On 12/15/2010 3:23 PM, Chris Craddock wrote: > > > > > Ok. "Don't do it". It is basically a bad idea. While that field was > > originally intended for "user" (i.e. "customer") use, in practice it > is > > unusable. If you want to be able to anchor something globally then > you > > should probably use some common storage and create a global > name/token pair > > to point to it. > > > > I am curious about this. Do some vendors try to use this field? > If so, I guess we have been lucky in our choice of vendors. > We have used this field to anchor a local "CVT" for over 40 years > and have had no problems. If I were doing it now, I would probably > use name/token, but it wasn't available then. > > -- > Richard > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
